Contract Sales/Booking Recognition Policy
Process Owner
Senior Executive of Corporate Business Development
Definitions
Booking - A contractual instrument* between a buyer and seller giving either party the ability at some future date to determine the estimated revenue derived from the contractual instrument. Bookings for most contracts are determined by the “Contract Value”. GovC reports booking values as part of our quarterly reports to investors/shareholders and in our Securities and Exchange Filings (SEC). Bookings are one financial metric to assess company growth and are a calculated factor in our incentive compensation system. *The terms “contract” “task order” “delivery order” “extension” “ECP*” or “Add-on” may be used individually or collectively to identify contractual instruments that when issued authorize the company to perform services or sell products and record bookings.
Collaborative Bookings – Awarded bookings resulting from the BD efforts of more than one GovC BU.
Single Award Contracts or Awarded Task Orders – Contracts awarded at some face value solely to GovC. Task orders awarded to GovC against a contract vehicle are included in this category. Award of the contract vehicle itself IS NOT included in this category.
Contract Vehicles – Multiple award contract instruments(ID/IQ contracts, BPAs, GWACs) are contractual instruments under which authorization(s) to perform services or provide products may be issued but which stand alone do not provide the authorization to perform services and record sales. The exact time or quantity when services or products may be required is unknown.
Fully Executed Contract Instrument – a contractual agreement that both parties, the buyer and the seller, have signed.
Policy
It is GovC policy to accurately and timely record all company bookings and to recognize and equitably assign recorded bookings to all BU’s whose singular or collective efforts resulted in booking awards.
For the purpose of calculating incentive compensation metrics, GovC records (assigns) total booking values to each BU participating in collaborative booking awards.
Reportable Bookings
In compliance with SEC regulations, the tabulation of reportable bookings is summarized as follows:
Single Award Contracts and Awarded Task Orders - the booking value is the valued stated in the fully executed GovC contract award instrument.
For Contract Vehicle awards – , The reportable booking value can not be accurately determined; therefore, for the purpose of recognizing BU incentive booking achievement, bookings are recorded based on the estimated value of the cumulative revenue to be realized under the IDIQ, GWAC, or BPA primary contract vehicle for its contract term as follows:
GovC is Prime Contractor:
1. Determine the Total Value of the Program award or contract ceiling. 2. Determine the number of awards made. 3. Determine the potential value to GovC by dividing the Total Value by number of awards made. 4. Determine whether the award is from a New or Existing GovC customer.
GovC is Subcontractor:
The booking value is reduced by a factor representing expected GovC workshare.
Booking Recognition
It is GovC's policy is to record actual bookings for all Single Award Contracts and Task Orders based upon the stated contract value at the time a fully executed contract instrument is issued the Buyer.
Responsibilities
Corporate BD is responsible for making the necessary reporting entries to represent bookings resulting from collaborative efforts in the reportable metrics for all participanting BU’s and for ensuring total bookings are reported accurately without duplication at the enterprise level.
To confirm the accuracy of recorded bookings,, Corporate BD is responsible for verifying all bookings over $10M by confirming the award documentation with the applicable BU.
It is the responsibility of the BU BD Lead to ensure that booking values and other related key metrics to include dates of award are accurate. .
General Procedures
GovC reports bookings as an element of our quarterly reports to our investors and shareholders. Data is collected by Corporate BD shortly after the close of each business month and reported on the 7th business day after the close. Bookings reported over any given reporting period are collected using data from GovWin entries marked as “Won” and any additional projects opened in GovC’s Financial system that are not accounted for as bookings in the GovWin system. Therefore, it is imperative that Business Units update GovWin entries as soon as possible after award notification with the total contract value and updated status. Entries where the data corrections are made after the close of the month should be specifically identified and reported to the Corporate Business Development Financial Director.
Recording Bookings When an Opportunity is Won
1. Value is determined as reflected in the Policy section above. 2. In order to avoid double counting the opportunity, only the bidding Business Unit may show this opportunity in the corporate GovWin pipeline. 3. The bidding Business Unit must advise other participating Business Units as to the final dollar value of the negotiated contract for incentive booking credit purposes.
Special Circumstances
There may be special circumstances, where the Sr. Vice President of Corporate BD will determine the value of the booking that should be credited to a Business Unit. All exceptions will be coordinated with the appropriate entities affected.